News

Lingua publishes paper by Jim Wood
October 31, 2013
The paper investigates the syntax of English verbal “rather,” noting its similarity to parasitic participle constructions found elsewhere in Germanic.
Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson to speak at Workshop on Semantic Variation
October 24, 2013
The workshop will be held at UChicago on October 25-26.
Kate Davidson publishes paper in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
October 24, 2013
Kate, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler argue that the spoken English development of children with cochlear implants is not impaired by exposure to sign language.
Yale linguists presenting at NELS
October 17, 2013
The conference, held this weekend at UConn, will feature a talk by Jim Wood and posters by Claire Bowern, Erich Round, and Raffaella Zanuttini.
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax includes chapter by Bob Frank
October 10, 2013
His chapter provides an overview of Tree Adjoining Grammar within the context of modern generative approaches to syntax.
Claire Bowern publishes paper in the Journal of Language Contact
October 10, 2013
Her paper, “Relatedness as a factor in language contact,” considers several aspects of language change and ways in which contact might interact with language relatedness.
Ilkyu Kim successfully defends dissertation
October 3, 2013
Congrats, Ilkyu!

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